VoIP Tutorial
To put it in the simplest terms VoIP or Voice over Internet Protocol is a way of using internet to make and receive telephone calls. Those of us, who have used MSN or Yahoo Messengers to talk with headsets, must be having at least some idea of how VoIP works. It basically converts your voice into digital signals that travel over internet.
The reason why it is gaining so much of popularity is its affordability. With VoIP you can make long distance calls at a fraction of cost that you used to pay to your telephone companies. It is primarily because of the fact that transferring digital signals over internet is quite cheaper than transferring analog signals over the traditional telephone lines. Also, VoIP offers you great convenience in terms of mobility. It can literally travel with you by enabling you to make long distance calls from anywhere in the world where you can get broadband connectivity without even changing your phone number. This means you have a roaming mobile phone service whose call rates are cheaper than a fixed line phone. Also, the services that are charged separately by telephone companies, like call waiting, three-way calling, call forwarding, caller identification, repeat dial, last call return, come as standard services with VoIP. In addition to these services there are a host of other services that are not offered by traditional telephone companies. For instance, with VoIP you can set up call filtering options and can thus regulate how calls from certain numbers are handled. If you don’t want to receive a call, you can give the caller a busy signal or play a not in service message. Also, you can forward the call to a particular number or send the call directly to voicemail. Moreover, the voice mail can be checked on internet and you can attach messages to an e-mail that are sent directly to your computer or handheld. These services can prove to be very helpful in solving your day to day problems and above all they come at no extra cost.